Mary and the Witch’s Flower, 2018. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Featuring the voice talents of Ruby Barnhill, Kate Winslet, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Jim Broadbent and Ewen Bremner. SYNOPSIS: A girl bored of rural life finds herself transported to a school of magic when she picks an unusual flower in the woods. Since the closure of […]
Danny Boyle teaming with Irvine Welsh for Creation Stories
Burning Wheel Productions have announced that filmmaker Danny Boyle has joined the feature production Creation Stories as an executive producer, reuniting the filmmaker with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. Scripted by Welsh and directed by Nick Moran (Telstar: The Story of Joe Meek and The Kid), Creation Stories will tell the tale of infamous record label […]
Getting Naked Again: Revisiting Mike Leigh’s Naked
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Mike Leigh’s 1993 film, Naked… The other day I attended a special screening at The Prince Charles Cinema in London. It was part of a specially curated selection of films (from NFTS) devoted to the vile and unlikeable. The first film of the series was Mike Leigh’s 1993 […]
New poster and trailer for Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower
GKIDS has released a new poster and trailer for Mary and the Witch’s Flower, the debut film from Studio Ponoc, which is directed by the Academy Award-nominated Hiromasa Yonebayashi, animator on Spirited Away and director of When Marnie Was There and The Secret World of Arrietty. Check them out here… Mary is a plain, young […]
Movie Review – Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman, 2017. Directed by Patty Jenkins. Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielson, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Said Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner, Lucy Davis and Elena Anaya. SYNOPSIS: Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside […]
Movie Review – T2 Trainspotting (2017)
T2 Trainspotting. 2017 Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Anjela Nedyalkova, James Cosmo, Irvine Welsh, Eileen Nicholas, Kevin McKidd, and Kelly Macdonald. SYNOPSIS: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie. Does the world of […]
Movie Review – T2 Trainspotting (2017)
T2 Trainspotting. 2017 Directed by Danny Boyle Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Anjela Nedyalkova and Kelly Macdonald. SYNOPSIS: Set two decades after the 1996 cult hit, T2 Trainspotting sees the original foursome reunite as middle-aged men in Edinburgh, grappling with their past demons and present failures. Nostalgia and money can […]
Trainspotting 2 could be Danny Boyle’s next movie, says “all the four main actors want to come back and do it”
With his new film Steve Jobs screening over the weekend at the Telluride Film Festival, director Danny Boyle has revealed to Deadline that the long-gestating sequel to Trainspotting is closer than ever. Speaking to the site, Boyle said: “All the four main actors want to come back and do it…. Now it is only a […]
Rumoured details on Pedro Pascal’s Wonder Woman 2 role, and returning characters
With Wonder Woman 2 gearing up to go into production this May, news broke this week that Game of Thrones and Narcos star Pedro Pascal had become the latest addition to the cast of the DC sequel, and now we have some potential details on his character, as well as returning cast members from the […]
Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower gets a UK trailer
Studio Ponoc has released a UK trailer for the upcoming animated feature Mary and the Witch’s Flower. Directed by former Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the film is based upon British author Mary Stewart’s book The Little Broomstick and features a voice cast that includes Ruby Barnhill, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Lynda Baron, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, […]
